Game Design & Development Tutorials

Free tutorials and online courses to help you learn game development from experienced industry instructors, for building and designing your own games. Join our community to learn new skills, theory, game dev software, and more. What would you like to learn?

Build an AS3 Tetris Game From the Ground Up
In this Active Premium tutorial we'll be creating a variant of the classic Tetris game, explaining general game concepts as well as some specific to this genre.
Alex
17 Mar 2011
Game Design
Harness the Power of Palette Mapping to Customize Game Characters
In this tutorial I'll show you how to use AS3's PaletteMap feature to create a character customization interface for your next game.
Cadin Batrack
8 Mar 2011
Game Design
Build a Striking Breakout Game in Flash
In this Premium Tutorial, we'll be building a Breakout game; "Brick Breaker" from scratch using Flash and AS3.
Carlos Yanez
9 Feb 2011
Game Design
“Double Down” with an Awesome Flash BlackJack Game
In this Premium Tutorial, we'll be building an amazing BlackJack game from scratch using Flash and AS3.
Carlos Yanez
18 Jan 2011
Game Design
Create Your Own Match 3 Game With Flixel: Polish
This week in Active Premium, we'll show you how to complete your Bejeweled-style Match 3 game, adding a title screen, a scoring system, and a Hint button;...
Daniel Branicki
6 Jan 2011
Game Design
Create Your Own Match 3 Game With Flixel: Core Game Mechanics
This tutorial will guide you through all the steps required to create a Match 3 game (such as Bejeweled) using Flixel. We'll structure the project using...
Daniel Branicki
15 Dec 2010
Game Design
Pushing Pixels: Blitting for Desktop, Web and Mobile
This is a talk which I recently gave at RIA Unleashed. It’s about advanced blitting for desktop, web and mobile. I’m going to look closely at inspiration as...
Jesse Freeman
30 Nov 2010
Game Design
Create an Epic War Game in Flash: Part 2
In the first lesson we created an engine to build the environment for our game; a camera that can follow active player objects; and one player object, the...
Konstantin Serov
9 Sep 2010
Game Design
Create an Epic War Game in Flash: Part 1
Creating a game is definitely one of the most involved tasks in the world of programming. If you want to write your own game, be prepared to spend a lot of...
Konstantin Serov
26 Aug 2010
Game Design
Build a Sci-Fi Game Intro Using Assets From deviantART
In this tutorial we will create an intro to a space-themed tower defense game using only assets from deviantART.com. We will create all parts of the...
Uli Rippinger
11 Aug 2010
Game Design
Test Your Observation Skills With an AS3 Difference Game
During this tutorial we create the core gameplay of a difference game. This includes all the main functionality and two levels to play around with. After...
Stephan Meesters
28 Jul 2010
Game Design
Create an Awesome Hangman Game in Flash Using ActionScript 3.0
Developing a game is must-have skill if you are a Flash Developer, it makes use of many different ActionScript methods and properties, plus you will have...
Carlos Yanez
12 May 2010
Game Design